Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 75

75. That every person ought to have care rather of his own people, and especially of believers.

The apostle in his first Epistle to Timothy:&#160; &#8220;But if any take not care of his own, and especially of those of his own household, he denies the faith, and is worse than an infidel.&#8221; Of this same thing in Isaiah: &#8220;If thou shalt see the naked, clothe him; and despise not those who are of the household of thine own seed.&#8221; Of which members of the household it is said in the Gospel: &#8220;If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much rather them of his household!&#8221;